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Contents Preface 5 Welcome to Share Monitor 5 About Share Monitor 5 About the Share Monitor Documentation 6 Additional Resources Chapter 1 7 Using Share Monitor 8 About the Share Monitor Main Window 11 About the Info Window 11 Viewing or Changing the Status of a Submitted Batch 13 Share Monitor and Distributed Processing 14 Share Monitor Preferences 3 Welcome to Share Monitor Preface Share Monitor is an easy-to-use application for viewing or adjusting the status of batches and jobs processed by Compressor, Apple Qmaster, Final Cut Pro, and Motion. This preface covers the following: • About Share Monitor (p. 5) • About the Share Monitor Documentation (p. 5) • Additional Resources (p. 6) About Share Monitor You use Share Monitor to monitor the transcoding progress of batches and jobs. You can pause, resume, cancel, and get the status for any submitted batch or any individual job, target, or target segment. You can also use Share Monitor to view detailed history for recently completed batches and jobs. Important: Share Monitor 4 is designed to work closely with Final Cut Pro X and later and Motion 5 and later. All mentions of Final Cut Pro and Motion in this document refer to these versions. About the Share Monitor Documentation The Share Monitor User Manual (this document) describes the Share Monitor application only. For information about Compressor and how to create a complete network for Apple Qmaster processing, see the Compressor User Manual, available in Compressor Help. • Share Monitor User Manual: This brief document describes how to use Share Monitor to monitor the transcoding progress of batches and jobs. • Compressor User Manual: This is a comprehensive document that describes the Compressor interface, commands, and menus and gives step-by-step instructions for using Compressor and accomplishing specific tasks. It also explains how to set up and maintain a distributed processing network for use with Compressor or digital visual effects software packages. It is written for users of all levels of experience. 5 • Final Cut Pro Help: This document describes how to share your projects and use Share Monitor to view the progress. • Motion Help: This document describes how to share your projects and use Share Monitor to view the progress. Additional Resources There are a variety of Apple websites that you can visit to find additional information. Compressor Website For general information and updates, as well as the latest news on Compressor, go to: • http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/compressor Apple Service and Support Websites For software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for all Apple products, go to the general Apple Support webpage. You’ll also have access to product specifications, reference documentation, and Apple and third-party product technical articles. • http://www.apple.com/support For software updates, documentation, discussion forums, and answers to the most frequently asked questions for Compressor, go to: • http://www.apple.com/support/compressor 6 Preface Welcome to Share Monitor Using Share Monitor 1 Just as Printer Setup Utility allows you to view print jobs submitted to a printer, Share Monitor lets you view the status of batches submitted for processing. For example, Share Monitor displays each batch’s name, details of where it originated, the percentage of completion, and the estimated time before completion. Batches not yet running appear as pending. Each batch, job, target, and target segment includes status information and a progress bar, as well as buttons you can use to pause, resume, cancel, and get the status of a transcode that is currently in progress. Note: The most popular use of Share Monitor is viewing the progress of the Compressor transcoding batches and Final Cut Pro or Motion sharing operations. By default, Share Monitor does not automatically open when you submit a Compressor batch. To have Share Monitor open automatically, in Compressor preferences, select “Automatically launch Share Monitor.” See the Compressor User Manual for more information. Share Monitor appears in the Dock when you start a share operation from either Final Cut Pro or Motion. This chapter covers the following: • About the Share Monitor Main Window (p. 8) • About the Info Window (p. 11) • Viewing or Changing the Status of a Submitted Batch (p. 11) • Share Monitor and Distributed Processing (p. 13) • Share Monitor Preferences (p. 14) 7 About the Share Monitor Main Window Most of the Share Monitor controls are available in the Share Monitor main window. Toolbar buttons User buttons Status buttons Batch display Cluster list The Share Monitor main window includes the following sections: General Interface For details about the toolbar buttons and the batch display, see the next sections. • Batch display: Provides a hierarchical display of batch, job, target, and segment information for current and completed batches. Also includes controls to pause, resume, cancel, and get status for any individual batch, job, target, or segment. • Toolbar: Use the toolbar to adjust the display of items you are monitoring. See Toolbar Buttons for details. • Cluster list: Displays a list of computers available for processing batches, including “This Computer” (the one using Share Monitor) and all enabled Apple Qmaster processing clusters on your network. Select any cluster in the list to monitor its activity. • User buttons: Click the Me button to display batches you submitted. Click All to display all batches for the selected cluster. (For information about permissions and password protection, see the “Apple Qmaster and Distributed Processing” chapter in the Compressor User Manual. • Status buttons: Click the Active button to display batches that the selected cluster is currently processing. Click Completed to display batches that the selected cluster has already completed. Click All to display all batches for the selected cluster. 8 Chapter 1 Using Share Monitor Toolbar Buttons Share Monitor contains a toolbar with the following buttons that let you adjust the display of batch status information. Note: If the toolbar isn’t visible when you open Share Monitor, click the button in the upper-right corner of the Batch window to open it. • Refresh: Click Refresh to update the status of a selected cluster immediately, rather than wait for the next update event. • Expand All: Reveals all job, target, and segment information for every batch. • Collapse All: Displays batch-level information only. • Sort Order: Switches the batch list between descending and ascending order. Batch Display Batches, jobs, targets, and segments are displayed in hierarchical (nested) views. Each view in the batch view hierarchy contains a disclosure triangle. Click the disclosure triangles to reveal the next level of the hierarchy. For example, click the disclosure triangle in a batch view to reveal the jobs contained within the batch, and click the disclosure triangle in a job view to reveal the targets contained within the job. Chapter 1 Using Share Monitor 9 Note: Completed tasks appear in the same view area. Batch view Job view Target view Segment views • Batch view: Displays the batch name, the number of jobs and targets contained within the batch, the date and time on which the batch was submitted, the name of the user who submitted the batch, and the status. • Job view: Displays the name, the number of targets and segments contained within the job, the input file type (displayed as an icon), and the status. • Target view: Displays the type (displayed as an icon), the name, the number of segments that the target has been broken down into, and the status. • Segment view: When a batch is being processed using a cluster, this displays a description (a time-based or frame-based description of the portion of the target being processed), the machine name (service node that the segment is being processed on), the status, and the machine type (displayed as an icon). Segment information is available only while a batch is being processed. 10 Chapter 1 Using Share Monitor About the Info Window To get detailed information about any submitted batch, job, target, or segment, click its Show Info button to open a window showing information for that item.